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Guides
Direct Ink Writing Explained: The Room-Temperature Process Behind Silicone, Ceramics, and Bioinks
Direct Ink Writing extrudes viscous pastes at room temperature, printing silicone, ceramics, metals, graphene and living tissue that FDM can't touch — a guide to how DIW works and why makers should care.
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Materials
Ireland's First Cement-Free 3D-Printed Wall Is Made From Bauxite Waste — And Cuts Embodied Carbon ~70%
Trinity College Dublin and Harcourt Technologies 3D printed Ireland's first Portland-cement-free geopolymer — a red-brown binder built largely from bauxite refining residue that preliminary figures peg at roughly 70% less embodied carbon than ordinary concrete.
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Business
LightForce Hands the CEO Job to a Medtech Closer as 3D-Printed Braces Scale Up
LightForce Orthodontics named Silk Road Medical veteran Erica Rogers CEO on July 16, 2026, moving founder Alfred Griffin to Chairman and Chief Product Officer as its patient-specific 3D-printed brackets push into a ~$10B market.
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Guides
The $149 Cover vs. the $5 Sheet of Coroplast: What a Printer Enclosure Actually Buys You
A maker's cut-and-fold Coroplast top enclosure for the Snapmaker U1 needs no printed parts or hardware — and it lands as Snapmaker sells an official $149 Top Cover, making it the perfect excuse to unpack what an enclosure's thermal, filtration, and dust-blocking jobs are actually worth to you.
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Business
SWISSto12 Closes $70M Series C — and Finally Gives Additive Manufacturing a Revenue Number Worth Arguing About
The Swiss firm that 3D prints RF payloads says it did $140M in 2025 revenue, holds $500M+ in contracted orders, has grown at a 110% CAGR since 2022, and hit positive EBITDA in 2026 — rare hard numbers in a sector that usually announces capacity instead of income.
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Materials
Waterloo's 3D-Printed Contact Lenses Come Off the Printer in 20 Minutes — Custom-Fit to Your Cornea
University of Waterloo chemists paired a purpose-built hydrophilic silicone resin with vat photopolymerization and a non-contact coating step that erases layer lines from the optical surface — producing patient-specific rigid contact lenses in about 20 minutes. Biocompatibility testing is done; in vivo studies are only in preparation.
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Software
Bambu Studio 2.8.1 Public Beta Adds Automatic Color Decomposition and E3D High-Flow Nozzle Support
Bambu Studio's new public beta can auto-break any target color into an optimal filament mix, sharpens CMYW/RYBW color prediction, and adds official support for E3D's High Flow nozzles.
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Printers
Freemelt Joins Proxima Fusion's Alpha Alliance to 3D Print Tungsten Parts for a Fusion Reactor
Swedish EB-PBF printer maker Freemelt has signed an MoU to join Proxima Fusion's Alpha Alliance, applying its tungsten-printing expertise to build plasma-facing components for a stellarator aiming to be the first to hit net energy gain.
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Materials
Johns Hopkins Researchers Crack the Thermal Puzzle Behind Stable Aluminum Metal Extrusion
A JHU team led by Jochen Mueller has mapped the two thermal failure modes that plague aluminum metal extrusion printing and fixed both by varying bed temperature layer-by-layer instead of fighting the nozzle.
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Industry
RIC Robotics' Autonomous Printers Break Ground on One of the Largest 3D-Printed Housing Communities in the US
Denver's RIC Robotics has deployed two autonomous printing systems at Cleora, a 106-home Colorado community where 65+ houses will be robotically printed alongside the county's first 3D-printed metro district.
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Business
Würth Additive Group Confirms Closure of Its Additive Manufacturing Business
Würth Group is shutting down its five-year-old Würth Additive Group division, offering only a terse statement and a closing-office email address to explain the end of its AM distribution and Digital Inventory Services business.
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Materials
Hawaii Startup Field-Tests 3D-Printed Basalt-Fiber Drones at RIMPAC 2026
Maui's Voltage Vessels is flying and floating 3D-printed drones made from Eclipse X9, a recycled-PETG/basalt-fiber composite, during the 30-nation RIMPAC 2026 exercise.
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